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Filibuster: Automated Fault Injection Tool to Improve DoorDash's Reliability
DoorDash recently revealed how they are using Filibuster, an automated fault injection tool, to identify resilience issues in microservice applications early on and improve platform reliability.
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Amazon Switched Compression from Gzip to Zstd for Own Service Data
A tweet from Adrian Cockcroft, former VP at Amazon, recently highlighted the benefits of switching from gzip to Zstandard compression at Amazon and triggered discussions in the community about the compression algorithm. Other large corporations, including Twitter and Honeycomb, shared interesting gains using zstd.
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Google Distributed Cloud Virtual Now Supports Virtual Machines
Recently Google announced the general availability of virtual machine (VM) support in Anthos for bare metal, also known as Google Distributed Cloud Virtual (GDC), which will allow customers to run VMs alongside containers on a single, unified, Google Cloud-connected platform in their data center or at the edge.
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Multi-Factor Authentication Fatigue Key Factor in Uber Breach
Earlier this week, Uber disclosed that the recent breach it suffered was made possible through a multi-factor authentication (MFA) fatigue attack where the attacker disguised themselves as Uber IT.
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Google Cloud Spanner Introduces Free Trial Instances and Fine-Grained Access Control
Google Cloud recently announced different improvements to their managed databases. The cloud provider introduced free trial instances and fine-grained access control for Spanner to let developers try the managed service and configure access to data at the table and column level.
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Preventing Serverless Vendor Lock-in with Design Patterns
Gregor Hohpe recently published an article proposing a paradigm shift to address vendor lock-in concerns on serverless cloud applications. Designing a solution using well-known patterns decouples its functional characteristics from the underlying cloud implementation, making it easier to avoid lock-in or to go multi-cloud.
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Debugging Large and Complex Dockerfiles Gets Easier with Buildg
Kohei Tokunaga has released buildg - an interactive tool for debugging Dockerfiles. The motivation for the project is to provide an easy-to-use interactive tool to inspect this build process. The tool also containers support for debugging Dockerfiles directly from inside several popular IDEs (Integrated Developer Environments), such as VS Code, Emacs and Neovim.
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Microsoft Announces New Azure Space Capabilities
Recently Microsoft announced a series of updates around Azure Space, their offering combing cloud and space. The company now brings Azure Orbital to general availability (GA), offers a new service with Azure Orbital Cloud Access in preview, and advances the digital transformation of satellite communication networks.
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Open-Source Constellation K8 Engine Aims to Bring Confidential Computing to Kubernetes
Constellation is a Kubernetes engine that shields Kubernetes clusters from the rest of the cloud infrastructure using confidential computing and confidential VMs. This creates a confidential context that ensures data is always encrypted, both at rest and in memory.
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.NET MAUI Framework Released Together with Visual Studio 2022
Microsoft announced last August that its multi-platform UI framework called MAUI has been officially released and out of preview, with the launch of Visual Studio 2022 for Windows. The release marks the official launch of the new framework for .NET programmers targeting Android and iOS devices, a direct successor to Microsoft’s Xamarin Forms framework.
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Luxon - Better Date and Time Management in JavaScript
Luxon is a modern lightweight library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates in JavaScript.
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Open-Source Threat Detection Tool Falco Adds Support for Google gVisor
The latest version of Falco introduces support for gVisor, Google's application kernel providing an additional isolation layer between applications and the host OS. Using Falco 0.32.1 users can monitor security events from gVisor to detect threats and audit containers.
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Java 19 Delivers Features for Projects Loom, Panama and Amber
Oracle has released version 19 of the Java programming language and virtual machine with a final feature set that includes seven JEPs. This release features JEPs that provide continued contribution toward Project Amber, Project Loom and Project Panama along with a new feature that ports the JDK to the Linux/RISC-V instruction set.
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Lightbend Changes Akka License and Is No Longer Open Source
Akka, a toolkit for writing concurrent distributed applications based on the actor model, was created thirteen years ago by Jonas Bonér, founder and CEO at Lightbend. The company has recently announced a new Akka license model that has changed from the open-source Apache 2.0 to the source-available Business Source License (BSL) 1.1.
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Apache ShenYu: Java Responsive API Gateway Announced as Apache Top-Level Project
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that Apache ShenYu, an asynchronous, high-performance, and responsive API Gateway for service proxy, protocol conversion, and API governance, has been promoted as a Top-Level Project. It is written in Java, but supports multiple languages such as Python, Go and .NET.